Word: heard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because my voice contains neither enough bass nor enough treble to project more than two inches from my mouth, loud parties require me to commit gross violations of people's personal space in order to be heard. Just to be sure I get my point across, I supplement my shouting with sweeping hand gestures that occasionally smack someone behind me upside the head. This, together with my penchant for incoherent rambling, often sends my way the accusation, "You are so drunk...
...stride across the Yard in my riding outfit," complains the team's coordinating co-captain Sia Shin `99. "It's a good thing we leave the whips in the barn." Many of these weird looks may be due to the large percent of the student body who have never heard of Harvard's equestrian team, and to the only slightly smaller percent who cannot quite remember what `equestrian' means...
...college from my home in Brussels, Belgium. Carrying my life across Harvard Yard in four small suitcases, I eagerly searched for students who had visited the city in which I grew up and who, by sharing their recollections with me, could assuage my pangs of home-sickness. Instead, I heard such questions as: "Do they speak Belgish in Belgium?," "Belgium borders Italy, right...
...alcoholic drink outside of family celebrations. There was plenty of drinking at my high school, I'm sure, but somehow I was naive enough to ignore that fact until prom night, when, on a letter-strewn beach, I found my classmates eagerly guzzling beverages I had never heard of. When I arrived at Harvard that September, getting smashed was not on my list of goals. I don't think I even thought about alcohol until the first entryway meeting...
...this not the message I heard as an 18-, 19- and 20-year-old at Harvard? Why does drinking seem the given on this campus? At least two parties are to blame: the College and undergrads themselves...